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- Record Label: Verve
- Release Date: Sep 23, 2022
- Summary: The London-based trio recorded improvisations over four days for its third full-length release.
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- Record Label: Verve
- Genre(s): Jazz
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Sep 23, 2022It will please fans of the hybrid jazz scene in England and draw in many new listeners internationally who will be deeply attracted to its apocalyptic energy, innovative beats, and rowdy abundance.
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The WireSep 21, 2022The tracks likewise evoke the futuristic and the arcane, but the brute force with they are delivered makes them some of the unit’s most exhilarating work to date. [Oct 2022, p.40]
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UncutSep 21, 2022Over a barrage of different beats, Hutching creates abstract-expressionist drip paintings using a single colour, or striking day-glo illustrations using broad brush-strokes, or pointillistic portraits using hundreds of identical dots. [Nov 2022, p.24]
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Sep 21, 2022There are more moments where the album feels driven by synths rather than drums. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the trio shine most brightly when this is reversed; the incessant drumming on the closer MYSTIK charges the entire track with the feeling of take-off.
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Sep 23, 2022This commitment to inducing a full-body response, not merely the tap of a foot at a bus stop, has a lambent ferocity that Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam doubles down on.
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Sep 23, 2022On Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam, The Comet Is Coming continue their exploration of the wide wonders around us — the unknown, physical and metaphysical, light and darkness, life and death, and the connectedness and spirit laced between it all; broadening the scope, testing ideas and seeking freedom and rapture through rhythm and sound.
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MojoSep 21, 2022They remain a magical band still searching for a commensurate album, arriving at a record whose thrills are real but fleeting. [Nov 2022, p.92]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Sep 23, 2022Fantastic stuff, unlike anything else out there right now. Space Age Psychedelic Jazz that wraps you in it's musical embrace and won't let go!
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